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Next Digital today announced the appointment of Ashley McVey to the position of Senior Digital Strategist.
Ashley’s key objective will be bringing his best practice and innovative thinking into the digital strategies developed for Next digital’s clients.

“I am thrilled to be given this opportunity to help expand the portfolio of an industry leading digital marketing and strategy based agency like Next Digital. I am excited to be working across the existing client base and in helping to secure new business as well,” said Mr McVey.

Prior to Next Digital, Ashley spent six years in London building on his digital marketing experience particularly in ecommerce.

General Manager - Client Services & Marketing at Next Digital, Stephen Lord said, “Ashley will bring with him an excellent understanding of digital marketing channels from the highly competitive UK market and will add significant capability to our fast growing ecommerce offering.”

“Ashley will bring over six years of agency and network experience to this position as well as a strong background in winning new business pitches. We are delighted to have such a talented and experienced strategist join the team,” said Mr Lord.

While based in London, Ashley worked at Digital Agency, Found, as Digital Strategy Director where he was responsible for new business and digital strategy. Ashley also worked at TradeDoubler in London working with both new business and digital strategies.

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For further information or interviews please contact:
Lauren Milne
CP Communications
Phone: 02 9460 9200

About Next Digital
Next Digital is a leader in creating successful digital strategies for clients throughout the Asia Pacific region. They combine exceptional marketing thinking, regional understanding and technical firepower to develop and deliver broad digital programs.

Their love for all things digital has been going strong for more than 16 years. That journey has helped them hone their delivery and engagement approach, and has shaped how they innovate and keep in front of a fast changing digital space.

Next Digital is a true full service digital agency with over 170 talented digital specialists working throughout offices in Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. www.nextdigital.com

Dr John Jarratt has been announced as the new Head of Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies for the Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University.

He comes to the university from his role as Head of Enterprise Risk Analytics for Westpac. He has also held the position of adjunct professor in the Applied Finance Centre at Macquarie University for five years.

“I am delighted to be given the opportunity to work with such a high quality team,” he said.

“I aim to further enhance our relevance and reputation in teaching, research and industry outreach by bringing a blend of academic and industry experience in financial risk to this position.”

Dr Jarratt has a Bachelor of Arts Honours from the University of Otago, New Zealand and a MSc and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, England. He brings to the role more than 25 years of experience in a range of positions within the financial industry.

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About Macquarie University Faculty of Business & Economics (FBE)
Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in addition to strong academic research in the fields of accounting and finance, actuarial studies, business, economics, marketing and management.

Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics International Governance and Performance Research Centre Director, Professor Nonna Martinov-Bennie, has been appointed to the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.

Before becoming an academic, she was a Senior Audit Manager with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, managing audit teams for major corporate audit clients. Prof. Martinov-Bennie is a FCPA and FCA and continues to be involved with the profession as a member of several advisory committees.

“It is a great honour, as the only academic member, to be appointed to such a prestigious and important regulatory body. I look forward to contributing my expertise and experience to the Board and its standard-setting activities”, she said.

The Auditing and Assurance Standards Board is an independent statutory agency of the Australian Government, responsible for developing standards and related guidance for auditors and providers of other assurance services.

About Macquarie University Faculty of Business & Economics (FBE)
Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in addition to strong academic research in the fields of accounting and finance, actuarial studies, business, economics, marketing and management.

Macquarie University’s new Centre for Workforce Futures has named Raymond Markey as Director and Professor of Employment Relations.

In this position he will be responsible for the strategic planning and operational management of the centre. The mission of the centre is to establish cross-disciplinary collaborations to undertake problem-focused research relating to the workforce and workplace, as well as conduct research on emerging issues for the workforce and workplace.

“I am delighted to be given this opportunity to assist and build the new centre. The centre aims to make a mark academically with production of high quality research outputs and also aims to partner with industry and the community in developing research programs that are of public benefit and socially relevant at regional, national and international levels,” Mr Markey said.

“In other words, we aim to have a significant impact with our research, and I believe that the team that we have assembled in the centre is well placed to achieve that.”

Prof. Markey comes to the centre with 20 years experience in establishing and managing similar university research centres in Australian and New Zealand. He is also the chair for the International Labour and Employment relations Association Study Group on Workers' Participation. 

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About Macquarie University Faculty of Business & Economics (FBE)

Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in addition to strong academic research in the fields of accounting and finance, actuarial studies, business, economics, marketing and management.